The Port of Gothenburg reports lower freight volumes in 2009, compared to 2008. However, a recovery was noted during the second half of the year. Around 504,000 ro-ro units were handled in 2009, a drop of 19 per cent compared to the previous year. Approximately 818,000 TEUs passed through the port l
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract from Aramco Overseas Company B.V., a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, to build a customized KFELS Super B Class jackup rig. The contract is subject to a notice from the owner to proceed with construction by May 2010.
American Cruise Lines is pleased to announce its newest ship, Independence, passed its first underway trials with flying colors and is now three months ahead of schedule. The trial was run on the Wicomico River in Maryland, close to Chesapeake Shipbuilding, where the ship is being built. During this
Offshore gas exploration companies are to get up to £160m of tax relief for each field under the most daunting areas of British waters. Chancellor Alistair Darling announced the planned legislation to encourage more drilling to the west of Shetland.
City government targets to start dredging works on 13 rivers in Jakarta by June 2010. The project is to be funded with a loan of Rp 1.5 trillion (around 150 million US dollars) from World Bank. The debt will be shouldered by central government by 59 percent of the total loan, and city government by
Drilling technology provider Plexus has landed a deal with British-based African operator Bowleven to provide its Pos-Grip downhole system for wells which are to be drilled offshore Cameroon.
Gulf Navigation Holding PJSC (GulfNav), one of the leading ship owning and maritime service companies in the region, has recently published an analytical study about the shipping and maritime industry, focusing on the recent challenges that the field had faced because of the economic drop, while hig
Canada’s Turbot war with the Spanish could soon have a follow-up, the shrimp war with the Danes. Fisheries Minister Gail Shea served notice on Tuesday, via news release, that unless ships from Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both controlled by Denmark, cease overfishing shrimp; Canada will block th
Technip has secured an augmentation pipeline deal at the Broom field in the UK North Sea. The company was awarded a lump sump contract, estimated at 21 million Euro, by Lundin Britain. Technip will design, fabricate and install a pipe-in-pipe production flowline, which will be trenched and backfille
Southampton’s status as one of the world’s key cruise ports has been underlined by news the last of the industry’s Big Three is to start major operations here next year. The Daily Echo can exclusively reveal MSC Cruises is to base the 60,000-ton ship MSC Opera in the city– the first time it has ever
For reasons of cost, the final scrapping of ships and the recycling of materials has gravitated to developing countries and attracts considerable criticism regarding the working conditions of the personnel involved and the disposal of possible harmful residues in the ships.
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit has been chosen to supply radars for the Sydney Harbour Ferries fleet. Sydney Harbour Ferries will fit the Sperry Marine new-generation VisionMaster FT(TM) chart radars on all 28 vessels in the fleet. Electrotech Australia Pty Ltd, Sperry Ma
Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that its largest and most innovative Freestyle Cruising ship to date, Norwegian Epic, debuting this July, will summer in the Mediterranean as part of her 2011/2012 deployment. The ship will sail a seven-day Western Mediterranean itinerary from Barcelona, Spain f
The first phase of a multi-billion Dollar plan to build a new port in Doha will be up and running by November 2014, a senior project official has announced. Toufic Oueida, executive director, told Gulf Times that the need for new facilities would become increasingly apparent if Qatar continues to gr
